Sustainable Development

Corporate Responsibility Charter

Back in 1996, ETNO launched its Environment and Sustainability Charter, demonstrating its members’ commitment to reducing their carbon footprint. Thanks to measures to optimize energy consumption of their networks and data centres and increased use of renewable energy, ETNO members managed to continue reducing their CO2 emissions. The ETNO bi-annual Sustainability Report monitors progress made by the 22 signatories the ETNO Sustainability and Environmental Charter that is open to all players on the market. The signatories of the Charter account globally for a turnover of about €200 billion. Thanks to their efforts to improve energy efficiency, ETNO Charter signatories have been continuously reducing their CO2 emissions despite a significant increase in overall energy demand due to growing mobile and data traffic. ETNO launched its Corporate Responsibility Charter which reflects the new challenges ahead and increasing engagement of ETNO members in new areas such as minor protection online and supply chain management.

Minor protection online

​​ETNO members are strongly committed to protecting the younger generations. The Child Protection Task Team of the ETNO Corporate Responsibility working group is steering ETNO members' activities in this field. The aim is to create a knowledge base and to raise awareness so that ETNO members may identify and understand existing and potential risks, adopt new measures and improve existing ones and thus continue to proactively tackle the threats. The overall aim is to make cyberspace and ICT services safer for the younger generations. As part of this commitment, ETNO launched a Website giving an overview of in-built security features in broadband, mobile and IP-TV services, examples of services conceived especially for children and awareness and educational campaigns.

About the Child Protection website

ETNO members are strongly committed to protecting the younger generations. The Child Protection Task Team of the ETNO Corporate Responsibility working group is steering ETNO members' activities in this field. The aim is to create a knowledge base and to raise awareness so that ETNO members may identify and understand existing and potential risks, adopt new measures and improve existing ones and thus continue to proactively tackle the threats. The overall aim is to make cyberspace and ICT services safer for the younger generations.

This new website gives an overview of in-built security features in broadband, mobile and IP-TV services, examples of services conceived especially for children and awareness and educational campaigns.

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ETNO is proud to share a new, innovative GeSI-Accenture report on the role of telecom companies and of the ICT sector in enabling the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. ETNO and leading telcos such as Deutsche Telekom, AT&T, Verizon, Swisscom, TDC, Telenor and TIM are members of GeSI.

Brussels, 27 September 2017 – Europe has lost as much as €100m in telco EBIT each day to digital disruptors and telcos in other regions for the past 10 years, which has impoverished the bloc’s digital economy. However, if industry and regulators embrace transformation, Europe can gain up to €4bn/day by being at the centre of the digital ecosystem, according to Accenture Strategy research conducted for ETNO.

With Safer Internet, our collaborative venture with Microsoft and Child Focus, twice a year, Proximus collaborators raise awareness among fifth- and sixth-year primary school pupils about safe and responsible Internet use. The aim of the campaign is to teach pupils to think critically during their web activities, to teach them to ask the right questions and to realize what the potential consequences could be of a certain type of online behavior.

The Best Societal Sponsorship Award is a recognition for companies who, via sponsoring, connect in a sustainable and authentic manner with the communities in which they operate. The award is in the first place a recognition for all colleagues who engage themselves to make the Safer Internet sessions a success.

The next sessions are foreseen on 10 February in the context of the international Safer Internet day.

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ETNO is the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association. We proudly represent Europe’s main telecom operators, who innovate and invest in the continent's digital backbone. Our companies are the providers of Europe's most advanced digital networks and services. ETNO's mission is to develop a positive policy and regulatory environment empowering the delivery of world-class services for European citizens and businesses.